Putting Her Best Foot Forward
Women’s soccer has not been a booming business—but former player and Web-content maven Tonya Antonucci has a plan to bring it back and make it work.
Two weeks after she left her job running Yahoo Sports in October 2004, Tonya Antonucci attended a Stanford University soccer alumni party at Lake Tahoe.
After a few drinks, Julie Foudy, the former U.S. women’s national team captain, asked her old friend and teammate if she was interested in heading up the relaunch of a professional women’s soccer league in the U.S.